From: Troy de Jongh (troyd@arh.com)
Date: Thu Jul 16 1998 - 14:50:05 EDT
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> At 11:23 AM 7/16/98 -0400, David L. Moore wrote:
> >At 09:34 AM 7/16/98 -0400, James Ernest wrote:
>
> >>At the moment I can think of only one adjective that
> >>ends with -smic, and it ain't Erasmic.
> >>
> > Seismic... Right?
>
> Since he chose not to share it with us, perhaps he was thinking of
> "orgasmic", but there are at least a good handful or examples:
>
> cosmic
> seismic
> orgasmic
> organismic
> cataclysmic
> cytoplasmic
>
> Lots of words that end with -sm can be turned into adjectives by adding
> -ic. Of course, as Carl points out, the -ic is the relevant morpheme.
>
> Jonathan
Let's not forget about
strabismic
protoplasmic
Actually, strabismus (strabism) --> strabismic is another good
parallel of the Erasmus -> Erasmic transition. Below is the
meaning of strabism and strabismus (oh, the benefits of grep'ing
the /usr/dict/words file under a UNIX OS! :-):
Hypertext Webster Gateway: "strabism"
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>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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Strabism \Stra"bism\, n. (Med.) Strabismus.
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Hypertext Webster Gateway: "strabismus"
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>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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Strabismus \Stra*bis"mus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to
squint, fr. ? distorted, squinting.] (Med.) An affection of one
or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the
same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to
undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the
eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
>From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
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strabismus n : abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn:
{squint}]
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